PP: My car's timing belt had snapped (I'm not very savvy about cars, especially when things need to be replaced, etc... and it's my first car), and my parents paid for it to be fixed. The end price was about $1527, which I had to pay back, but I haven't been able to find a job. Relatives kept asking me what I wanted for Christmas, so I said that I wanted help in paying my bill. My parents kept asking me what I wanted as well, so I said to them that since they already paid for my car to be fixed, I would appreciate a lower cost to pay them back.

AP: On Christmas Eve while my family and I opened gifts from each other, the subject of my car's bill came up, and my parents told me the new lower price I had to pay back... just $300! I just can't believe it that they would take on $1227 of the bill of my car (I bought it from them, and my dad thought the belt's replacement time was later than it was supposed to be. If he knew the correct replacement time, the snapping of the belt wouldn't have happened. I need to find out the "expiration dates" of my car parts, obviously). We're not rich or anything, and we don't a whole lot of income other than my mom's job working with mentally-disabled preschoolers and my dad's retirement, so them paying the larger portion of the bill confuses me. If anything, I would have expected to pay them the $1227 instead.

I don't think his mom knew I was chatting with him. It wasn't a phone call or anything- just instant messaging.

However... I don't know whether to believe him or not; he was gone for over an hour and I didn't think his mom stayed up that late. >.>Time to give him the benefit of the doubt. Again. Apart from him and another guy (whom I've never met), I don't really have any friends anyway. *shrugs*

I hope so. Makes me wonder if the friend I was "chatting" with up and left without saying a thing, or if it was Skype's fault and he tried to say something, but wouldn't let him... I need to know if he's being sending mixed signals whether or not he still wants to be my friend or not. >:{

Just saw "Against the Dark" on tv. For a zombie/vampire theme, the plot is rather generic (get out alive before X happens) even though it has some concepts I haven't seen before in zombie films/books/games/comics. Parts of the movie reminded me of the TZH, the first campaign of Left 4 Dead, and of Resident Evil III, which I've only read about (haven't played the game yet). It has lots of gore, bad non-verbal script actions, and was really disappointing.

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Oh no, an infection, and it's just about wiped out an entire city except for a handful of survivors. What are the infected? Zombies or vampires? They bite, drink blood and eat organs, don't really seem dead, but they can talk, plot, and you can kill them the same way you can kill any human being, though they don't really seem to feel pain.

I have a great-uncle, who's had type 1 diabetes since he was little, and because he didn't take care of it very well, he lost a few toes (I think) and is legally blind. He's never worked a real job, he gets money from the government, pretty much stole his mother's house (which was originally supposed to go to my grandmother, his sister), takes his mother's social security money, has a bad temper, and his siblings are afraid of him. He also has grabbed his nephew's (my uncle) throat in rage over money the great-uncle was getting (I won't go into detail, but police were called, and much bullshit happened afterward). He's so used to getting away with stuff, I guess, because while he was growing up, people took pity on him because of his condition. Fortunately, he and his wife never had kids. My dad and my uncle want little to do with him as possible.

Wait you named your dog Snickers? After that weird bar with the nuts and stuff and all the advertisements circulate around Mr T? Personally I think its good but I also don't know weather to think about that, laugh or cry.

Yeah, after the candy bar. Mr. T had nothing to do with it.

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My dad wanted to breed her, and we would have named her puppies after candy too. Like, the fattest one would have been named "Rollo". Too late now. I can't believe she's gone... Anyone have a time machine?